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Afghanistan unlike Iraq was pretty clear though. Bin laden was hiding there and the Taliban were refusing to give him up also Afghanistan was in a state of perm
by yywwbbn 5y ago
Afghanistan unlike Iraq was pretty clear though. Bin laden was hiding there and the Taliban were refusing to give him up also Afghanistan was in a state of permanent civil war and the Taliban government was not recognized internationally . So US wasn’t exactly invading a sovereign country (unlike what happened with Kuwait, Iraq II and the Ukraine).
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y agoIt is clear that afghanistan was a problem in this situation, but it's not clear that going to war was a good or justified solution to the problem. Just my 2c.
- hindsightbias 5y agoNot sure you could call Iraqi-occupied Kuwait a sovereign country.
- megapolitics 5y agoI think the parent comment was saying that Iraq was invading a sovereign country in the Gulf War. I can see how the comment could be parsed as saying America invaded the sovereign country of Kuwait, but given the third example is Ukraine I think the parent was just giving 3 examples of invasions of sovereign countries in general and not just invasions by the US.